8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (3)
#19076605 at 2023-06-26 15:23:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23426: BOOM Week Incoming Edition
>>19076604
They said they were placed on examination tables in the UFO, before being subjected to scientific experiments while the aliens stripped them, plucked their hair, took clippings of their nails, and scraped their skin.
Betty also claimed to have been shown an intricate star map that she knew from memory. When asked to produce it later, she identified star system Zeta Reticuli, around 39 lightyears from earth, as her abductor's home planet.
Their story was picked up by a Boston reporter and spread like wildfire, propelling the Hills into fame and fascination. In 1975, a made-for-TV movie starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons was made about their story.
Before the Hills came out with their claims over six decades ago, stories of alien abductions were far different - and bordered on nonexistent.
Most appeared to be about more casual encounters where the extraterrestrials were friendly. After the Hills captured national attention, abductions almost all came to include issues including medical experiments and invasions.
The stereotypical wide-eyed, grey beings and plate-like UFO described by the Hills also went on to become a benchmark for other alien sightings for decades to come.
'Not to carry it over too far, but they were kind of the Adam and Eve of alien abduction,' said Bill Ross, Professor Emiritus of UNH, to NewsCenterMaine.
Just as with skeptics now, experts tried to explain how the couple, who were seemingly regular, stable individuals with no prior history of mental illness, could come up with such a tall tale. Even Simons, who conducted the hypnosis sessions on them, said he didn't believe their story.
But after Barney's death in 1969 at the age of 47, Betty seemingly struggled with people questioning her story alone.
She dove further into conspiracy theories in her later life, and she claimed to be followed by black helicopters as she became increasingly alienated from society.
Betty also claimed to be abducted several more times in the years since, as she earned legendary place within the conspiracy theory world.
Now, more than 60 years on from the Hills' encounter with the third kind, experts have warned their legacy has had a lasting impact on conspiracy theories today.
Discussing his book, Bowman insisted that the dismissal the Hills were faced with when they came forward with their story, including from their own hypnotist, could have made them dig in.
'It would have been a real slap in the face for them, and that's the point they began giving up on the idea that the government, scientists, experts are going to help them.
'They turned to this alternative infrastructure of conspiracy theorists who will affirm to them what they remember.'
He added that the revival of conspiracy theories, from the JFK assassination to QAnon, can be traced back to the Hills and the first UFO sighting.
'One of the quintessential features of the last 60 years in western history is a distrust of institutions and the emergence of conspiratorial thinking,' he said.
'The sense among many citizens in the west, that there are vast institutional powers running our lives, a major vector for that sort of discourse stemmed from belief in UFOs.'
But, as put by Harvard psychologist Richard McNally to History: 'The 'alien-abduction' phenomenon, in my opinion, shows how sincere, non-psychotic individuals can develop beliefs about, and false memories of, incredible experiences that never happened.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12215637/We-abducted-aliens-unbelievable-story-Betty-Barney-Hill.html
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#19071911 at 2023-06-25 19:15:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23420: Muh Russia, Muh Joo... It's JOEVER. #DEMASK Edition
>>19071903 Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2
Faced with explaining the nonsensical meeting, the Hills thought it best to keep quiet. Their memories were almost completely gone, and no one had ever claimed to experience anything similar before.
After recurring nightmares and anxiety crippled the couple, however, they turned to hypnosis in an attempt to dig out their suppressed traumatic memories.
In sessions recorded by the hypnotist, Dr Benjamin Simon, the Hills detailed beings eerily familiar to abduction tales of years since. Betty was palpably traumatized by the ordeal, as she claimed she and her husband were beamed into a flying saucer, taken into separate rooms, and analyzed.
Simon spent months piecing their story together, finding they both had oddly similar experiences.
They said they were placed on examination tables in the UFO, before being subjected to scientific experiments while the aliens stripped them, plucked their hair, took clippings of their nails, and scraped their skin.
Betty also claimed to have been shown an intricate star map that she knew from memory. When asked to produce it later, she identified star system Zeta Reticuli, around 39 lightyears from earth, as her abductor's home planet.
Their story was picked up by a Boston reporter and spread like wildfire, propelling the Hills into fame and fascination. In 1975, a made-for-TV movie starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons was made about their story.
Before the Hills came out with their claims over six decades ago, stories of alien abductions were far different - and bordered on nonexistent.
Most appeared to be about more casual encounters where the extraterrestrials were friendly. After the Hills captured national attention, abductions almost all came to include issues including medical experiments and invasions.
The stereotypical wide-eyed, grey beings and plate-like UFO described by the Hills also went on to become a benchmark for other alien sightings for decades to come.
'Not to carry it over too far, but they were kind of the Adam and Eve of alien abduction,' said Bill Ross, Professor Emiritus of UNH, to NewsCenterMaine.
Just as with skeptics now, experts tried to explain how the couple, who were seemingly regular, stable individuals with no prior history of mental illness, could come up with such a tall tale. Even Simons, who conducted the hypnosis sessions on them, said he didn't believe their story.
But after Barney's death in 1969 at the age of 47, Betty seemingly struggled with people questioning her story alone.
She dove further into conspiracy theories in her later life, and she claimed to be followed by black helicopters as she became increasingly alienated from society.
Betty also claimed to be abducted several more times in the years since, as she earned legendary place within the conspiracy theory world.
Now, more than 60 years on from the Hills' encounter with the third kind, experts have warned their legacy has had a lasting impact on conspiracy theories today.
Discussing his book, Bowman insisted that the dismissal the Hills were faced with when they came forward with their story, including from their own hypnotist, could have made them dig in.
'It would have been a real slap in the face for them, and that's the point they began giving up on the idea that the government, scientists, experts are going to help them.
'They turned to this alternative infrastructure of conspiracy theorists who will affirm to them what they remember.'
He added that the revival of conspiracy theories, from the JFK assassination to QAnon, can be traced back to the Hills and the first UFO sighting.
'One of the quintessential features of the last 60 years in western history is a distrust of institutions and the emergence of conspiratorial thinking,' he said.
'The sense among many citizens in the west, that there are vast institutional powers running our lives, a major vector for that sort of discourse stemmed from belief in UFOs.'
But, as put by Harvard psychologist Richard McNally to History: 'The 'alien-abduction' phenomenon, in my opinion, shows how sincere, non-psychotic individuals can develop beliefs about, and false memories of, incredible experiences that never happened.'
#2580739 at 2018-08-13 09:06:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3256: Abby Normal Edition
BAKER BAKER
I bet they knew!!! Think MKULTRA
"Harvard Study: Trigger Warnings Might Coddle the Mind"
"Trigger warnings may do more harm than good."
"A new study out of Harvard-the first randomized controlled experiment designed to examine the effects of trigger warnings on individual resilience-may indicate that Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt were right about trigger warnings.1
In the fall of 2015, Greg Lukianoff, First Amendment Lawyer and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (for which I work), and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business, published an article in The Atlantic.2 In it, they detailed how college campuses may inadvertently promote mental habits identical to the "cognitive distortions" that cognitive behavioral therapists teach their clients to recognize and overcome. The pair argued that some campus practices-presumably intended to protect students from being harmed by words and ideas deemed offensive or distressing-seemed to be interfering with students' ability to get along with each other, and could even be having a deleterious effect on their mental health. Among those practices: training students to identify microaggressions (things people say or do, often unintentionally, that are interpreted as expressions of bigotry), turning classrooms and lecture halls into intellectual safe spaces (where students are protected from words and ideas they might find upsetting), and the issuing of trigger warnings: alerts about the potentially "triggering" content of written work, films, lectures, and other presentations.
A "trigger" is something that affects those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It viscerally reminds them of a past traumatic experience, and provokes an extreme and maladaptive negative emotional response. The trigger itself is not harmful, but is something in a person's environment that reminds that person of past trauma. The thinking behind issuing trigger warnings is that for people who have experienced trauma, distress will be reduced by warning them about possible ways in which they could be "triggered" by content that could remind them of their traumatic experience. The warning ostensibly allows them to mentally prepare for the challenge of confronting potentially triggering material, or to avoid the prospective trigger altogether.
Harvard psychology professor and PTSD expert, Dr. Richard McNally (an author of the recent study) explained in 2016 essay in the New York Times that "severe emotional reactions triggered by course material are a signal that students need to prioritize their mental health and obtain evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral therapies that will help them overcome PTSD."3 In other words, severe emotional reactions are not an indication that professors or others should warn students in advance that material could be triggering for those with PTSD, nor that potentially triggering material should be removed from the syllabi. Constantly warning people with PTSD about possible triggers could potentially even interfere with their recovery. As Lukianoff and Haidt point out in their newest book, The Coddling of the American Mind,4 the avoidance of triggers is not a treatment for PTSD; it is a classic symptom of it. In fact, according to Dr. McNally, therapies that promote recovery from PTSD "involve gradual, systematic exposure to traumatic memories until [the capacity of those memories] to trigger distress diminishes."
"The use of trigger warnings originated on the internet, and they are applied much more broadly than to actual PTSD triggers-which are typically more about an individual's personal experience of trauma than representations of similar kinds of trauma. A trigger can be something as simple as a smell, a sound, a certain color shirt, or the place or type of place where the trauma occurred. A trigger can even be a language, an accent, or the lilt of someone's voice. On campus, however, anything that trauma survivors find upsetting-regardless of whether they suffer from PTSD, and regardless of whether it's an actual trigger-can be a candidate for a trigger warning; as can any material about the mistreatment of people from marginalized groups, and anything else that students or professors predict could be upsetting can be given a "trigger warning," even without trauma survivors."
MORE AT LINK!!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-and-the-pursuit-leadership/201808/harvard-study-trigger-warnings-might-coddle-the